Revisiting Symbolic Interaction in Music Studies and New Interpretive Works

229 Pages·2014·2.756 MB·English

by  Norman K. Denzin (ed.)

REVISITING SYMBOLIC
INTERACTION IN MUSIC STUDIES
AND NEW INTERPRETIVE WORKS
STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC
INTERACTION
Series Editor: Norman K. Denzin
Recent Volumes:
Volumes 1(cid:1)35: Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Volume 36: Blue Ribbon Papers: Interactionism:
The Emerging Landscape
Volume 37: Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Volume 38: Blue Ribbon Papers: Behind the
Professional Mask: The Self-Revelations
of Leading Symbolic Interactionists
Volume 39: Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Volume 40: 40th Anniversary of Studies in Symbolic
Interaction
Volume 41: Radical Interactionism on the Rise
STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION VOLUME 42
REVISITING SYMBOLIC
INTERACTION IN MUSIC
STUDIES AND NEW
INTERPRETIVE WORKS
EDITED BY
NORMAN K. DENZIN
Institute of Communications Research,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
United Kingdom (cid:1) North America (cid:1) Japan
India (cid:1) Malaysia (cid:1) China
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CONTENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii
INTRODUCTION
Special Issue Editor ix
Jeffrey van den Scott
Revisiting Symbolic Interaction in Music Studies
PART I: REVISITING SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
IN MUSIC STUDIES
EXPERIENCING THE MUSIC: TOWARD A VISUAL
MODEL FOR THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF
MUSIC
Jeffrey van den Scott 3
COOPERATIVE ACTIVITY: THE IMPORTANCE OF
AUDIENCES
David T. Bastien and Jeremy Rose 21
SCENES, PERSONAE AND MEANING:
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONIST SEMIOTICS OF JAZZ
IMPROVISATION
Scott Currie 37
THE SCENE: A CONCEPTUAL TEMPLATE FOR
AN INTERACTIONIST APPROACH TO
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Joseph A. Kotarba and Nicolas J. LaLone 51
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vi CONTENTS
PART II: NEW INTERPRETIVE WORKS
THE DIALECTIC OF DOMINATION AND
DEMOCRACY IN AESCHYLUS’S ORESTEIA:
A RADICAL INTERACTIONIST READING
Gil Richard Musolf 69
WILMER’S SECRET BOX: REFLECTIONS ON MY
FATHER’S LIFE
John M. Johnson 109
FROM BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS TO A
GROUNDED THEORY: SOCIAL WORLDS OF
GERMAN TRADE UNIONS
Kirstin Bromberg 117
THE ROLE OF INFORMAL SPORT: THE LOCAL
CONTEXT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELITE
ATHLETES
Vidar Halldorsson, Thorolfur Thorlindsson and 133
Michael A. Katovich
FAMILIAR STRANGERS: FACEWORK STRATEGIES
IN PURSUIT OF NON-BINDING RELATIONSHIPS IN
A WORKPLACE EXERCISE GROUP
Hilde Rossing and Susie Scott 161
WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF TERRORISM:
THE EVOLUTION OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE
HANDBOOKS
Johnny Nhan and Michael A. Katovich 185
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES 211
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
David T. Bastien St. Cloud State University, Minnesota,
USA
Kirstin Bromberg Brandenburg University of Technology,
Cottbus-Senftenberg Cottbus, Germany
Scott Currie University of Minnesota, USA
Vidar Halldorsson University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
John M. Johnson Arizona State University, USA
Michael A. Katovich Texas Christian University, USA
Joseph A. Kotarba Texas State University, USA
Nicolas J. LaLone Pennsylvania State University, USA
Gil Richard Musolf Central Michigan University, USA
Johnny Nhan Texas Christian University, USA
Jeremy Rose University of Minnesota, USA
Hilde Rossing Norwegian School of Sport Sciences,
Oslo, Norway
Susie Scott University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Thorolfur Thorlindsson University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Jeffrey van den Scott Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
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INTRODUCTION
Jeffrey van den Scott
This special issue seeks to bridge a perceived gap between qualitative
sociological, particularly symbolic interaction, and ethnomusicological
approaches to the study of music. This is not a new concept and was the
theme of the 1987 keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for
Ethnomusicology, delivered by Howard S. Becker. Despite the 25 years
that have passed since this address, the discourse between sociologists and
ethnomusicologists remains limited. This special issue seeks to bring the
fieldsclosertogetherbyhighlightingsomeofthecomplementarytheoretical
approaches of phenomenology and symbolic interaction as they relate to
music studies. My own personal quest to reconcile my readings and experi-
ences in ethnomusicology with those in sociology led me to organize a
panel titled “Revisiting Music and Symbolic Interaction” at the 2012
Couch-Stone Symposium, sponsored by the Society for the Study of
Symbolic Interaction. The following four chapters, which comprise this
special issue, emerged from that panel and work toward this reconciliation
by applying the lenses of symbolic interaction to various musical genres,
fromtraditionalInuitmusictojazztohip-hopinordertovalidateBecker’s
belief that the study of the “journeymen and routine work” of which most
art (and therefore also music) consists is a fruitful field of scholarly endea-
vor (Becker, 1989, p. 282). In working toward this goal, the four chapters
ofthisspecialissuecomefrommultipledisciplines,includingtwofrometh-
nomusicology, one from sociology, and one from communication studies.
They each reflect sensitivity to their various topics as both artistic achieve-
mentandsocialactivity.
Becker expands his theory for the sociology of art in Art Worlds, pub-
lished several years before the keynote address noted above. This theory
derives from the simple, yet often overlooked, fact that “[a]ll artistic work,
likeallhumanactivity,involvesthejointactivityofanumber,oftenalarge
number, of people” (Becker, 2008/1982, p. 1). This address was published
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